The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1887-11-03
THURMAN ON CLEVELAND.

The "Old Roman" Allen G.. Thur
man, at Kenton Hardin county, on
Saturday gave an interesting personal
reminiscence at the outset telling how,
fifty four years ago, he was on the site
of kenton, then an almost impenetra-
BILE Wilderness, "a beardless youth earn
ing his daily bread by his occupation as
a land surveyor" Judge Thurman's
speech was mainly devoted to the dis
cussiOn of the sectional issue Sherman
and Foraker have raised, and glowed
with his old fire, telling hits and argu-
mentatiye force Concluding he re-
ferred to the personnel of the State
ticket and gave his opinion of Cleye-
land and his administration We
quote:
There is one man want to speak
about because / know him right well.
He is a man that you have heard of
much. and that man is Grover Cleye-
land, President of the United States.
LGreat and prolonged applause
Now my friends, | have seen u good
many Presidents in my long life. l
have known several Of theIl personally,
and | have read the history of the ad.
ministrations Of them all. Il have seen
and | know, and | think ! know him
full we'll Grover Cleveland, our Presi-
dent of the United States, and on my
honor as man who is bound TO tell
the truth to his fellOW-men ] don't
believe that more honest, drawer,
truer man ever filed the presidential
chair of the United States. Prolonged
applause.l
1t was said that if he should be elect
ed president the country would all be
ruined. Wen, even my friend John
Sherman agrees that the sun does yet
rise laughterb and that the rain does
fall and the corn does grow; and John
Sherman's fences are in as good cOndi-
tion as they ever were; renewed laugh
ter notwithstanding Grover Cleveland
is President Of the nation. And, my
friends say he is an honest, brave
man. He is more than that; he is a
man Of far more ability than people
who don't him may suppose. lie has
the supreme faculty, the best of all fac
ulties, which we designate by the term
common sense" Applause.l If he
is not level-head6d, common sense,
honest man, then | ain no judge of
men. Applause.l
Now ! am glad to find that every day
that he lives he grows in the estimation
of the American people, and my firm
belief is that when his four years are
ut an end they viii say to him. "YOu
have done well when we put such and
such trusts in your hands. We have
tried you for four years and found you
will do well, and now you may take
your seat for another four years"
lGreat applause.l
The conclusion Of the grand old mans
speech was touching. The meeting
was an immense one, fully ten thousand
people having assembled in the town to
hear Thurman. In closing he said
My friends, this is probably the last
| political speech | ever shall make.
don't know. am pretty tough old
sfellOW, and it may be that | will be
wandering about here, like a ghost on
the banks of StyX, ten years from now,
talking Democracy to you. / swear
| you will never hear me talking any
thing else. Laughter and applause. |
But | am inclined to think that this is
the last political speech | ever shall
! make. And if it is, in my parting
words to you beseech you to stand by
the great principles that Thomas JET
ferson laid down for the American peo-
pie, that Andrew Jackson enforced,
and that have made this country one of
the greatest and freeSt and most Iowa
bic countries upon which the sun of
God shines to-day. Be thankful that
you have such government; and new
er forget that when you come to sift it
down; to analyze it; to boil it, you will
find that every principle that has con-
tributed to your happiness is "a principle
of the Democratic party. Great ap-
plause.l